Muh Bankruptcy to save Purdue Pharma from literally untold lawsuits over Opiod Oxicontin. Smells like a rinse and repeat of Tobacco Industry protections
Purdue Pharma is the maker of the opioid drug OxyContin. It’s considering bankruptcy. Doing so would protect the company from facing literally thousands of lawsuits filed against Purdue Pharma for having covered up its knowledge of just how addictive and dangerous OxyContin really is, because the company’s practices fueled the opioid overdose crisis we’re facing here in the United States. Two hundred people per day, 70,000 people per year, died as a result of the opioid overdose crisis in our country. Meanwhile, court cases in progress in Boston and Suffolk County, New York are beginning to reveal just how much the owners of Purdue Pharma knew who manufactured and sold OxyContin; how much they knew about the addictive nature of their drug, withholding vital information from physicians who would be prescribing it to all of us.
Behind all this is the billionaire family the Sackler family, who owns Purdue Pharma. According to recently revealed depositions, the Sacklers didn’t want Oxycontin to “be polluted by the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine, or drug use for people suffering severe pain to treat cancer and for end of life patients.”
Joining me now to explore the latest developments in this case is Wendell Potter. He’s a former health insurance executive and author of several books, including Deadly Spin, Nation on the Take. He’s also founder of Tarbell.org, which is an investigative site that examines the role of money in our politics. And thanks for joining us once again here on the real news Wendell Potter cont………
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